Nelson Rockefeller - Vice President to President Gerald Ford} Nelson Rockefeller U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Be the first to review Nelson Rockefeller, a member of the Republican Party , took office as the 41st Vice President of the United States on December 19, 1974 at age 66. Rockefeller served as VP to President Gerald Ford for 2 years through January 20, 1977. He was born in Bar Harbor, Maine and received an education from Dartmouth College. See all U.S. Vice Presidents Write a Review Nelson Rockefeller (Vice President) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Nelson Rockefeller Male Born Jul 8, 1908 Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was an American businessman, philanthropist, public servant, and politician. He served as the 41st Vice President of the United States, serving under President Gerald Ford, and as the 49th Governor of New York (1959â1973). He also served in the administrations of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower in a variety of positions.

A member of the wealthy Rockefeller family, he was also a noted art collector.… Read More related links Rockefeller On The Attica Raid, From Boastful To Subdued NYTimes - Sep 13, 2011 'Hours after 1,000 New York State troopers, sheriff\'s deputies and correction officers stormed Attica prison to crush a four-day inmate revolt in 1971, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller telephoned President Richard M. Nixon to claim victory unambiguously. At the time, it appeared that State Police sharpshooters who had fired on the prison yard had killed' Op Ed Contributor; The Lingering Injustice Of Attica NYTimes - Sep 09, 2011 'Philadelphia FORTY years ago today, more than 1,000 inmates at Attica Correctional Facility began a major civil and human rights protest -- an uprising that is barely mentioned in textbooks but nevertheless was one of the most important rebellions in American history.

A forbidding institution that opened in 1931, Attica, roughly midway between' Registering The Poor To Vote Is Un American American Thinker Google News - Sep 01, 2011 'Liberal Republican governors such as New York&#39;s <mark>Nelson Rockefeller</mark> and Michigan&#39;s George Romney quickly surrendered under steady assault from NWRO organizers. Burgeoning welfare caseloads brought New York City to the brink of bankruptcy in the 1970s,' Moderates Shunned By The Modern Gop The Journal News | Lo Hud.Com Google News - Aug 31, 2011 'I remember when there were authentic moderates, and even &quot;liberals&quot; on the GOP side â statesmen like <mark>Nelson Rockefeller</mark>, Jacob Javits, Lowell Weicker and Howard Baker. You often saw their names on both the GOP and &quot;liberal&quot; lines of the ballot' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Nelson Rockefeller. CHILDHOOD 1908 Birth Rockefeller was born in 1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine.

… Read More He was the second son of financier and philanthropist John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and philanthropist and socialite Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich. He had a sister, Abby (1903â76); and four brothers: John III (1906â78), Laurance (1910â2004), Winthrop (1912â73), and David (born 1915). Their father John Jr. was the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and schoolteacher Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman. Their mother Abby was a daughter of Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich and Abigail Pearce Truman "Abby" Chapman. Rockefeller received his elementary, middle and high school education at the Lincoln School, an experimental school administered by Teachers College of Columbia University. Read Less TWENTIES Show Less In 1930 he graduated cum laude with an A.B.

in economics from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Casque and Gauntlet (a senior society), Phi Beta Kappa, and the Zeta chapter of the Psi Upsilon. On June 23, 1930, Rockefeller married Mary Todhunter Clark. They had five children: Michael disappeared in New Guinea in November 1961, presumed drowned while trying to swim to shore after his dugout canoe capsized. Nelson and Mary were divorced in 1962. 1931 - 1932 2 More Events 1931 22 Years Old Following his graduation, he worked in a number of family-related businesses, including Chase National bank (later Chase Manhattan), 1931; Rockefeller Center, Inc., joining the board of directors in 1931, serving as president, 1938â45 and 1948â51, and as chairman, 1945â53 and 1956â58; and Creole Petroleum, the Venezuelan subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, 1935â40.

1932 23 Years Old From 1932 to 1979 he served as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, where he also served as treasurer, 1935â39, and president, 1939â41 and 1946â53. 1933 25 Years Old Rockefeller served as a member of the Westchester County (NY) Board of Health, 1933â53. … Read More His service with Creole Petroleum led to his deep, lifelong interest in Latin America. He became fluent in the Spanish language. Read Less 1935 27 Years Old … Rockefeller served as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art from 1932 to 1979. Read Less He also served as treasurer, 1935â1939, and president, 1939â1941 and 1946â1953. … Read More In 1933 Rockefeller was a member of the committee selecting art for the new Rockefeller Center.

For the wall opposite the main entrance of 30 Rockefeller Plaza Nelson Rockefeller wanted Henri Matisse or Pablo Picasso to paint a mural because he favored their modern style, but neither was available. Diego Rivera was one of Nelson Rockefeller's mother's favorite artists and therefore was commissioned to create the huge mural. He was given a theme: New Frontiers. Rockefeller wanted the painting to make people pause and think. Rivera submitted a sketch for a mural entitled "Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future." The sketch featured an anonymous man at the center. However, when it was painted the work caused great controversy due to the inclusion of a painting of Lenin (depicting communism) just off-center. The Directors of Rockefeller Center objected and Rockefeller asked Rivera to change the face of Lenin to that of an unknown laborer's face as was originally intended, but the painter refused. Read Less THIRTIES He and his four brothers established the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a philanthropy, in 1940, where he served as trustee, 1940â75 and 1977â79, and as president in 1956.

… Read More Rockefeller was a patient of famous psychic Edgar Cayce. Read Less In 1940, after he expressed his concern to President Franklin D. Roosevelt over Nazi influence in Latin America, the President appointed him to the new position of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA) in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA). … Read More Rockefeller was charged with overseeing a program of U.S. cooperation with the nations of Latin America to help raise the standard of living, to achieve better relations among the nations of the western hemisphere, and to counter rising Nazi influence in the region.<br /><br /> In this period, the Roosevelt administration adopted a "Good Neighbor Policy" and encouraged Hollywood to produce films to encourage positive relations with Latin America. Rockefeller required changes in the movie Down Argentine Way (1940) because it was considered offensive to Argentines. It was much more popular in the United States than in Latin America. Charlie Chaplin's satirical The Great Dictator (1940) was banned in several countries.

Read Less 1943 - 1944 2 More Events 1943 35 Years Old In the spring of 1943, Rockefeller supported extensive negotiations and mission of North American members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce to Latin America as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs of the US' State Department, establishing the Junior Chamber International after its first Inter-American Congress in December 1944 at Mexico City. … Read More After coming back from the Inter-American Congress, Nelson Rockefeller convinced his father, John D Rockefeller, to donate the land to the city of New York in order to build the foundations of what would become later the United Nations' Headquarter. Read Less 1944 36 Years Old In 1944, President Roosevelt appointed Rockefeller Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. Show Less As Assistant Secretary of State, he initiated the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace in 1945. … Read More The conference produced the Act of Chapultepec, which provided the framework for economic, social and defense cooperation among the nations of the Americas, and set the principle that an attack on one of these nations would be regarded as an attack on all and jointly resisted.

Rockefeller signed the Act on behalf of the United States. Read Less Rockefeller was a member of the U.S. delegation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945; this gathering marked the UN's founding. … Read More At the Conference there was considerable opposition to the idea of permitting, within the UN charter, the formation of regional pacts such as the Act of Chapultepec. Rockefeller, who believed that the inclusion was essential, especially to U.S. policy in Latin America, successfully urged the need for regional pacts within the framework of the UN. Rockefeller was also instrumental in persuading the UN to establish its headquarters in New York City.<br /><br /> President Truman fired Rockefeller, reversed his policies, and shut down the OCIAA. Reich says that in official Washington, Rockefeller had become "a discredited figure, a pariah." He returned to New York. Read Less Back in the metropolis in mid-1945, Rockefeller served as Chairman of Rockefeller Center, Inc., (1945â53 and 1956â58) and began a program of physical expansion.

1946 38 Years Old He established the American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA), in 1946, and the International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC), in 1947 to jointly continue the work he had begun as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. 1947 39 Years Old As a businessman he was President and later Chairman of Rockefeller Center, Inc., and he formed the International Basic Economy Corporation in 1947. … Read More Rockefeller assembled a significant art collection and promoted public access to the arts. Read Less FORTIES 1950 - 1953 3 More Events 1950 42 Years Old Rockefeller returned to public service in 1950 when President Harry S. Truman appointed him Chairman of the International Development Advisory Board. … Read More The Board was charged with developing a plan for implementing the President's Point IV program of providing foreign technical assistance. Read Less 1952 44 Years Old In 1952 President-Elect Dwight D.

Eisenhower asked Rockefeller to Chair the President's Advisory Committee on Government Organization to recommend ways of improving efficiency and effectiveness of the executive branch of the federal government. … Read More Rockefeller recommended thirteen reorganization plans, all of which were implemented. The plans implemented organizational changes in the Department of Defense, the Office of Defense Mobilization and the Department of Agriculture. His recommendations also led to the creation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Read Less 1953 45 Years Old Rockefeller was appointed Under-Secretary of this new department in 1953. … Read More Rockefeller was active in HEW's legislative program and implemented measures that added ten million people under the Social Security program. Read Less Show Less He served as trustee, treasurer, and president, of the Museum of Modern Art, and founded the Museum of Primitive Art in 1954. … Read More In the area of philanthropy, he established the American International Association for Economic and Social Development in 1946, and with his four brothers he founded the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 1940 and helped guide it.

Read Less In 1954 he was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Foreign Affairs (sometimes referred to as Special Assistant to the President for Psychological Warfare). … Read More He was tasked with providing the President with advice and assistance in developing programs by which the various departments of the government could counter Soviet foreign policy challenges. As part of this responsibility he was named as the President's representative on the Operations Coordinating Board, a committee of the National Security Council. The other members were the Undersecretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the director of the Foreign Operations Administration, and the Central Intelligence Agency director. The OCB's purpose was to oversee coordinated execution of security policy and plans, including clandestine operations.<br /><br /> Rockefeller broadly interpreted his directive and became an advocate for foreign economic aid as indispensable to national security. Most of Rockefeller's initiatives were blocked by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his Under Secretary, Herbert Hoover Jr., both traditionalists who resented what they perceived as outside interference from Rockefeller, and by Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey for financial reasons.

Read Less Show Less In March 1955 Rockefeller proposed the creation of the Planning Coordination Group, a small high level group that would plan and develop national security operations, both overt and covert. … Read More The group consisted of the Undersecretary of State, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the director the CIA, and Special Assistant Rockefeller as chairman. The group's purpose was to oversee CIA operation and other anti-communist actions. However, State Department officials and CIA Director Allen Dulles refused to cooperate with the group and its initiatives were stymied or ignored. In September Rockefeller recommended the abolishment of the PCG, and in December he resigned as Special Assistant to the President. Read Less However, in June 1955 Rockefeller convened a week-long meeting of experts from various disciplines to assess the U.S. position in the psychological aspects of the Cold War and develop proposals that could give the U.S. the initiative at the upcoming Summit Conference in Geneva. … Read More The meeting was held at the Marine Corps school at Quantico, Virginia, and became known as the Quantico Study. The Quantico panel developed a proposal called "open skies" wherein the U.S.

and the Soviet Union would exchange blueprints of military installations and agree to mutual aerial reconnaissance. Thus military buildups would be revealed and the danger of surprise attacks minimized. It was a counter proposal to the Soviet proposal of universal disarmament. The feeling was that the Soviets could not refuse the proposal if they were serious about disarmament. Read Less Show Less In 1956, he created the Special Studies Project, a major seven-panel planning group directed by Henry Kissinger and funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, of which he was then president. … Read More It was an ambitious study created to define the central problems and opportunities facing the U.S. in the future, and to clarify national purposes and objectives. The reports were published individually as they were released and were republished together in 1961 as Prospect for America: The Rockefeller Panel Reports.<br /><br /> The Special Studies Project came into national prominence with the early release of its military subpanel's report, whose principal recommendation was a massive military buildup to counter a then-perceived military superiority threat posed by the USSR.

The report was released two months after the October 1957 launch of Sputnik, and its recommendations were fully endorsed by Eisenhower in his January 1958 State of the Union address.<br /><br /> This initial contact with Kissinger was to develop into a lifelong relationship; Kissinger was later to be described as his closest intellectual associate. From this period Rockefeller employed Kissinger as a personally funded part-time consultant, principally on foreign policy issues, until the appointment to his staff became full-time in late 1968. In 1969, when Kissinger entered Richard Nixon's administration, Rockefeller paid him $50,000 as a severance payment. Read Less Rockefeller resigned from the Federal government in 1956 to focus on New York State and on national politics. From September 1956 to April 1958 he chaired the Temporary State Commission on the Constitutional Convention. … Read More That was followed by his chairmanship of the Special Legislative Committee on the Revision and Simplification of the Constitution. Read Less FIFTIES Show Less He intermittently served as president of both through 1958.

… Read More AIA was a philanthropy for the dissemination of technical and managerial expertise and equipment to underdeveloped countries to support grass-roots efforts in overcoming illiteracy, disease and poverty. IBEC was a for-profit business that established companies that would stimulate underdeveloped economies of certain countries. It was hoped the success of these companies would encourage investors in those countries to set up competing or supporting businesses and further stimulate the local economy. Using AIA and IBEC Rockefeller established model farms in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil. He maintained a home at Monte Sacro, the farm in Venezuela. Read Less In the state election of 1958, he was elected governor of New York by over 600,000 votes, defeating the incumbent, multi-millionaire W. … Read More Averell Harriman, even though 1958 was a banner year for Democrats elsewhere in the nation. Rockefeller was ultimately elected to four, four-year terms as governor. Read Less 1959 51 Years Old … In foreign affairs, Rockefeller supported U.S. involvement in the United Nations as well as U.S. foreign aid.

He also supported the U.S.'s fight against communism and its membership in NATO. As a result of Rockefeller's policies, some conservatives sought to gain leverage by creating the Conservative Party of New York. The small party acted as a minor counterweight to the Liberal Party of New York. The most common criticism of Rockefeller's governorship of New York is that he tried to do too much too fast, vastly increasing the level of state debt which later contributed to New York's fiscal crisis in 1975. Rockefeller created some 230 public-benefit authorities like the Urban Development Corporation. They were often used to issue bonds in order to avoid the requirement of a vote of the people for the issuance of a bond; such authority-issued bonds bore higher interest than if they had been issued directly by the state. Read Less The state budget went from $2.04 billion in 1959â60 to $8.8 billion in his last year, 1973â74.

"Rockefeller sought and obtained eight tax increases during his fifteen years in office." "During his administration, the tax burden rose to a higher level than in any other state, and the incidence of taxation shifted, with a greater share being borne by the individual taxpayer." After unsuccessfully seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968, he served as Vice President from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald R. Ford. Rockefeller sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968. His bid in the 1960 primary ended early when then-Vice President Richard Nixon surged ahead in the polls. … Read More After quitting the campaign, Rockefeller backed Nixon and concentrated his efforts on introducing more moderate planks into Nixon's platform.<br /><br /> Rockefeller, as the leader of the Republicans' "Eastern Establishment," began as the front-runner for the 1964 nomination against conservative Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who led the right wing of the Republican Party. Read Less Rockefeller had also declined to become Nixon's running mate in the 1960 presidential election.

… Read More While acknowledging that many conservatives opposed Rockefeller, Ford believed he would bring executive expertise to the administration and broaden the ticket's appeal if they ran in 1976, given Rockefeller's ability to attract support from constituencies that did not typically support Republicans, including organized labor, African Americans, Hispanics, and city dwellers. Ford also felt he could demonstrate his own self-confidence by selecting a strong personality like Rockefeller for the number two spot. Although he had said he was "just not built for standby equipment", Rockefeller accepted the President's request to serve as vice president: It was entirely a question of there being a Constitutional crisis and a crisis of confidence on the part of the American people.. I felt there was a duty incumbent on any American who could do anything that would contribute to a restoration of confidence in the democratic process and in the integrity of government. Rockefeller was also persuaded by Ford's promise to make him "a full partner" in his presidency, especially in domestic policy.

Read Less 1962 54 Years Old Re-elected in elections of 1962, of 1966 and of 1970, Rockefeller vastly increased the state's role in education, environmental protection, transportation, housing, welfare, medical aid, civil rights, and the arts. … Read More He resigned three years into his fourth term to work at the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.<br /><br /> Rockefeller was the driving force in turning the State University of New York into the largest system of public higher education in the United States. Under his governorship it grew from 29 campuses and 38,000 full-time students to 72 campuses and 232,000 full-time students. Other accomplishments included more than quadrupling state aid to primary and secondary schools; providing the first state financial support for educational television; and requiring special education for children with disabilities in public schools.<br /><br /> Consistent with his personal interest in design and planning, Rockefeller began expansion of the New York State Parks system and improvement of park facilities.

He persuaded voters to approve three major bond acts to raise more than $300 million for acquisition of park and forest preserve land and he built or started 55 new state parks. Rockefeller initiated studies of environmental issues, such as loss of agricultural land through developmentâan issue now characterized as "sprawl." In September 1968, Rockefeller appointed the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks. Read Less Show Less In 1963, a year after Rockefeller's divorce from his first wife, he married Margaretta "Happy" Murphy, a divorcee with four children, which alienated many Republican married women. … Read More The divorce was widely condemned by politicians, such as liberal Senator Prescott Bush of Connecticut, who condemned his infidelity, divorce, and remarriage. Rockefeller finished third in the New Hampshire primary in March, behind write-in Henry Cabot Lodge II (from neighboring Massachusetts) and Goldwater. He then endured poor showings in several more of the party primaries before winning an upset in Oregon in May. Rockefeller took a strong lead in the California primary, and his team seemed so assured of his victory that it cut advertising funds in the last days of his campaign.

However, the birth of Rockefeller's child three days before the California primary put the divorce and remarriage issue back in the minds of voters, and on primary election day, Rockefeller narrowly lost the California primary and dropped out of the race. Read Less On May 4, 1963, he married Margaretta Large "Happy" Fitler. … Read More He and his second wife had two sons together: <br /><br /> They moved to a penthouse that encompassed the top three floors at 810 Fifth Avenue. The apartment was expanded by purchasing a floor of 812 Fifth Avenue. The two spaces connected via a flight of six steps. Nelson and Happy Rockefeller used the entrance at 812 Fifth, while his first wife entered through 810 Fifth. They remained married until his death. Read Less LATE ADULTHOOD Show Less Rockefeller again sought the presidential nomination in the 1968 primaries. … Read More His opponents were Nixon and Governor Ronald Reagan of California. In the contest, Rockefeller again represented the liberals, Reagan representing the conservatives, and Nixon representing moderates and liberals also.

Read Less Rather than formally announce his candidacy and enter the state primaries, Rockefeller spent the first half of 1968, alternating between hints that he would run and pronouncements that he would not be a candidate. … Read More Shortly before the Republican convention, Rockefeller finally let it be known that he was available to be the nominee, and he sought to round up uncommitted delegates and woo reluctant Nixon delegates to his banner, armed with public opinion polls that showed him doing better among voters than either Nixon or Reagan against Democrat Hubert Humphrey. Despite Rockefeller's efforts, Nixon won the nomination on the first ballot. Read Less 1969 61 Years Old In April and May 1969, at the request of President Nixon, Rockefeller and a team of 23 advisors visited 20 American republics during four trips to solicit opinions of U.S. inter-American policies and to determine the needs and conditions of each country. … Read More Most of the trips turned out to be an embarrassment. Among the recommendations in Rockefeller's report to the President were preferential trade agreements with Latin American countries, refinancing the region's foreign debt, and removing bureaucratic impediments that prevented the efficient use of U.S. aid.

The Nixon administration did little to implement the report's recommendations. Rockefeller wrote in his report preface that, <br /><br /> The major part of the Rockefeller report suggested a reduction of U.S. involvement, "we, in the United States, cannot determine the internal political structure of any other nation". Because there was little the United States should or could do toward changing the political atmosphere in other countries, there was no reason to attempt to use economic aid as a political tool. This was the justification to reduce economic aid in Latin America. The Rockefeller report called for some aid to continue, but the report recommended creating more effective aid programs. Read Less Show Less This led to his introduction to the Legislature in 1971 of a bill to create the controversial Adirondack Park Agency, which was designed to protect the Adirondack State Park from encroaching development.

… Read More Also, he launched the Pure Waters Program, the first state bond issue to end water pollution; created the Department of Environmental Conservation; banned DDT and other pesticides; and established the Office of Parks and Recreation.<br /><br /> In 1967 Rockefeller won approval of the largest state bond issue at the time ($2.5 billion) for the coordinated development of mass transportation, highways and airports. He initiated the creation or expansion of over of highway including the Long Island Expressway, the Southern Tier Expressway, the Adirondack Northway, and Interstate 81 which vastly improved road transportation in the state of New York. Rockefeller introduced the state's first support for mass transportation. He reformed the governance of New York City's transportation system, creating the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in 1965. The MTA merged the New York City subway system with the publicly owned Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, the Long Island Rail Road, Staten Island Rapid Transit, and later the Metro North Railroad, along with the newly created MTA Bus Company, which were purchased by the state from private owners in a massive public bailout of bankrupt railroads and struggling private bus companies located in Queens, NY.

He also created the State Department of Transportation. Read Less On September 9, 1971, prisoners at the state penitentiary at Attica, NY, took control of a cell block and seized thirty-nine correctional officers as hostages. … Read More After four days of negotiations, Department of Correctional Services Commissioner Russell Oswald agreed to most of the inmates' demands for various reforms but refused to grant complete amnesty to the rioters, with passage out of the country and removal of the prison's superintendent. When negotiations stalled and the hostages appeared to be in imminent danger, Rockefeller ordered New York State Police and national guard troops to restore order and take back the prison on September 13. Thirty nine people died in the assault, including ten of the hostages. An additional eighty people were wounded in what was called "a turkey shoot" by state prosecutor Malcolm Bell.<br /><br /> A later investigation showed all but three of the deaths were caused by the gunfire of the National Guard and police. The other three were inmates killed by other inmates at the beginning of the riot.

Opponents blamed Rockefeller for these deaths in part because of his refusal to go to the prison and talk with the inmates, while his supporters, including many conservatives who had often vocally differed with him in the past, defended his actions as being necessary to the preservation of law and order. "I was trying to do the best I could to save the hostages, save the prisoners, restore order, and preserve our system without undertaking actions which could set a precedent which would go across this country like wildfire," Rockefeller later said. Read Less Show Less … In taking over control of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Rockefeller shifted power away from Robert Moses, and in doing so became the first politician to win such a battle with the master builder Moses in decades. Under the New York MTA, toll revenue collected from the bridges and tunnels, which had previously been used to build more bridges, tunnels, and highways, now went to support mass transportation operations, thus shifting costs from general state funds to the motorist. Read Less In one controversial move, Rockefeller abandoned one of Moses's most desired projects, a Long Island Sound bridge from Rye to Oyster Bay, in 1973 due to environmental opposition.

… Read More To create more low-income housing, Rockefeller created the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC), with unprecedented powers to override local zoning, condemn property, and create financing schemes to carry out desired development. The financing involved the creation of a new sort of bondâwhat came to be called "moral obligation" bonds. They were not backed by the full faith and credit of the State, but the quasi-public arrangements were meant to, and did, convey the impression that the State would not let them fail. Rockefeller is criticized in some quarters for having contributed to the "Too Big To Fail" phenomenon in U.S. finance in general.

(UDC is now called the Empire State Development Corporation.) By 1973, the Rockefeller administration had completed or started over 88,000 units of housing for limited income families and the aging.<br /><br /> In the area of public assistance the Rockefeller administration carried out the largest state medical care program for the needy in the United States under Medicaid; achieved the first major decline in New York State's welfare rolls since World War II; required employable welfare recipients to take available jobs or job training; began the state breakfast program for children in low income areas; and established the first state loan fund for nonprofit groups to start day-care centers. Read Less In May 1973 President Nixon appointed Rockefeller chairman of the National Commission on Water Quality, charged with determining the technological, economic, social and environmental implications of meeting water quality standards mandated by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. … Read More The Commission issued its report in March 1976 and he testified before Congress on its findings. He served until July 1976. Read Less In November 1973, Rockefeller worked with former Delaware Governor Russell W.

Peterson to establish the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, and served as chairman until December 1974. … Read More The Commission was a private study project on national and international policy similar to the Special Studies Project he led 15 years earlier. It was made up of a nationally representative, bipartisan group of 42 prominent Americans drawn from far-ranging fields of interest who served on a voluntary basis. Members included the majority and minority leaders of both houses of Congress. The Commission gathered information and insights to better understand the problems facing America, and to present to the American public the "critical choices" to be made in facing those problems. Read Less He resigned as Governor of New York in December 1973, devoting himself to his new commission and the possibility of another presidential run. This was not the first time that Rockefeller was under consideration for vice president. He was on President Nixon's short list to replace Spiro Agnew in 1973 but, Nixon ultimately selected Ford.

Show Less Ford ascended to the presidency following the August 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon over the Watergate Scandal, and Ford selected Rockefeller as his replacement, only the second vice president to be appointed under the provisions of the 25th Amendment, Ford having been the first. The conflict between Rockefeller and Goldwater would have lasting effects as Goldwater would subsequently vote against Rockefeller's confirmation for the Vice Presidency in 1974 and then as a key player in blocking Rockefeller from being on the 1976 presidential ticket. Upon President Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald Ford assumed the presidency and on August 20 he nominated Rockefeller to be the next Vice President of the United States. … Read More In considering potential nominees, Rockefeller was one of three primary candidates. The other two were then-United States Ambassador to NATO Donald Rumsfeld, whom Ford eventually chose as his Chief of Staff, and then-Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush, who would eventually become Vice President in his own right.

Read Less Beginning his service upon taking the oath of office on December 19, 1974, Rockefeller was the second person appointed vice president under the 25th Amendmentâthe first being Ford himself. … Read More Rockefeller often seemed concerned that Ford gave him little or no power, and few tasks, while he was vice president. Ford initially said he wanted Rockefeller to chair the Domestic Policy Council. But Ford's new White House staff had no intention of sharing power with the vice president and his staff.<br /><br /> Rockefeller's attempt to take charge of domestic policy was thwarted by Chief of Staff Rumsfeld, who objected to policy makers reporting to the president through the vice president. When Rockefeller had one of his former aides, James Cannon, appointed executive director of the Domestic Council, Rumsfeld cut its budget. Rockefeller was excluded from the decision making process on many important issues.

When he learned that Ford had proposed cuts in federal taxes and spending he responded: "This is the most important move the president has made, and I wasn't even consulted." Nevertheless, Ford appointed him to the Commission on the Organization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, and appointed him Chairman of the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, the National Commission on Productivity, the Federal Compensation Committee, and the Committee on the Right to Privacy. Ford also put Rockefeller in charge of his "Whip Inflation Now" initiative. Read Less 1975 67 Years Old In November 1975 Rockefeller offered to withdraw. … Read More Ford eventually concurred, and in explaining his decision Rockefeller said that he "didn't come down (to Washington) to get caught up in party squabbles which only make it more difficult for the President in a very difficult time.<br /><br /> After Ford was nominated at the 1976 Republican National Convention, Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and other prominent conservatives conditioned their support for Ford on his selection of a suitable vice presidential nominee.

Ford considered several candidates, including moderate-to-liberal Republicans such as William Ruckelshaus, and moderate-to-conservative Republicans including Bob Dole, and eventually decided upon Dole as the most acceptable to conservatives.<br /><br /> As of 2016, Ford is the last incumbent president to not have his incumbent vice president as his running mate. Ford later said not choosing Rockefeller was one of his biggest mistakes, and "one of the few cowardly things I did in my life." Read Less Show Less However, Rockefeller did not join the 1976 Republican national ticket with President Ford, marking his retirement from politics. After Gerald Ford's elevation to the Presidency, Rockefeller was named Vice President. He played a ceremonial role with no scope for his energies. Rockefeller was not a candidate for a full term in 1976, and Ford selected Bob Dole as his running mate. Because the perception was that the Alliance for Progress was a failure, shortly after taking office, on February 17, 1969, President Richard Nixon commissioned a study to assess the state of Latin America. … Read More Nixon appointed his most powerful political rival, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to direct the study.

The poor relationship between the two politicians suggested that Nixon would not be that interested in the results of the study. There was a lack of interest for the region in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Read Less On May 13, 1976 Vice President Rockefeller visited the earthquake-stricken areas of Friuli in Italy (near Aviano Air Base) and presented an important donation to the local population. With the moderate Ford facing continued difficulty in securing the support of conservative Republicans for the 1976 presidential nomination, and anticipating a challenge from the conservative Ronald Reagan, he considered the possibility of another running mate, and discussed it with Rockefeller. Rockefeller campaigned actively for the Republican ticket, and Ford lost narrowly to Jimmy Carter. In what would become an iconic photo of the 1976 campaign, Rockefeller famously responded to hecklers at a rally in Binghamton, New York with a raised middle finger. "At the time, Rockefeller's finger flashing was scandalous.

… Read More Writing about the moment 20 years later, Michael Oricchio of the San Jose Mercury News said the action became known euphemistically as 'the Rockefeller gesture'." Read Less Show Less On January 10, 1977, Ford presented Rockefeller with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1977 he founded Nelson Rockefeller Collection, Inc., (NRC) an art reproduction company that produced and sold licensed reproductions of selected works from Rockefeller's collection. … Read More In the introduction to the NRC catalog he stated he was motivated by his desire to share with others "the joy of living with these beautiful objects." Read Less ROCKEFELLER, Nelson Aldrich - Biographical Information Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office ROCKEFELLER, Nelson Aldrich, (grandson of Nelson W. Aldrich; uncle of John D.

[Jay] Rockefeller IV), a Vice President of the United States; born in Bar Harbor, Hancock County, Maine, July 8, 1908; attended Lincoln School of Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1926; graduated, Dartmouth College 1930; engaged in oil, real estate, and banking businesses, and family philanthropic activities; served variously as trustee, treasurer, president, chairman of the board of Museum of Modern Art in New York City 1932-1975; director, Office of Inter-American Affairs 1940-1944; Assistant Secretary of State for Latin-American Affairs 1944-1945; returned to family philanthropic activities and helped establish American International Association; member and chairman of Presidents Advisory Committee on Government Organization 1953-1958; Under Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953-1954; Special Assistant to the President for Foreign Affairs 1954-1955; Governor of New York 1959-1973; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican

 presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968; nominated by President Gerald R.

Ford on August 20, 1974, under the provisions of the twenty-fifth amendment to the Constitution, to be the Forty-first Vice President of the United States; confirmed by the Congress and took the oath of office on December 19, 1974, and served until January 20, 1977, when the term ended; returned to family philanthropic activities and worked extensively on his art collection in New York, N.Y., where he died on January 26, 1979; cremated; ashes interred at the family estate, Pocantico Hills, N.Y. Bibliography American National Biography; Rockefeller, Nelson A. The Future of Freedom: A Bicentennial Series of Speeches. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976; Persico, Joseph. The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982. Nelson Rockefeller | MCBDDS Nelson Rockefeller Nelson Rockefeller Biography Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician.

He served as the 41st Vice President of the United States from 1974-1977, serving under President Gerald Ford. He was also the 49th Governor of New York. Never one to let a problem get him down, Rockefeller dealt with the daily struggles of dyslexia. Born on July 8, 1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine, Rockefeller was the grandson to Standard Oil founder, John D. Rockefeller Sr. Although his childhood was easy, his dyslexia became a problem in the third grade when he sunk to the bottom of his class. Nelson Rockefeller | 1908 - 1979 With no teachers or tutors because dyslexia had yet to be a distinguishable disability, Rockefeller struggled with reading. Math was easier, as he understood the concepts, but he would frequently reverse numbers because of his dyslexia. After almost failing the ninth grade, he decided he needed to concentrate and exercise self-discipline. Rockefeller attended Dartmouth College, where he graduated cum laude in 1930, receiving a degree in economics.

Following graduation, he worked in a number of family-related businesses including Chase National Bank and Rockefeller Center which began construction during the Great Depression – becoming President at the age of 30. During WW2, Rockefeller developed his lifelong interest in Latin America, becoming fluent in Spanish. Becoming friends with President Roosevelt, he was appointed the Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs in 1944, and later served as a member of the U.S. delegation at the United Nations. It was the first meeting of the UN, and Rockefeller was instrumental in persuading it to establish its headquarters in New York City. Returning to private life for a short time, Rockefeller would later receive presidential appointments by Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon. In 1958, Rockefeller became the 49th Governor of New York, where he would hold the post for fourteen years. Unsuccessfully attempting to win the Republican bid for President several times, Rockefeller settled for the Vice Presidential role in 1973 serving under President Gerald Ford. After Ford won the Presidency, Rockefeller conducted a special PBS program called “The Puzzle Children” to lend his voice to the dyslexic children in America.

In the address, he told the world of his personal discoveries of how to cope with dyslexia, saying, “Accept the fact that you have a problem. Refuse to feel sorry for yourself. You have a challenge; never quit!” He hoped telling the world that he could speak three languages and give speeches on television, and won his place as Vice President would give hope to others. Rockefeller died of a heart attack in New York City on January 26, 1979. Notify Me Nelson A. Rockefeller Forty-First Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller Forty-First Vice President Served Under Gerald Ford December 19, 1974 To January 20, 1977 Name

Question: Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President under which President?
Answer: Gerald Ford